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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installation failure Date: 01 Jul 1994 17:34:27 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 27 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jul1183427@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <Cs8DoG.L3@megatest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: albrecht@megatest.com's message of Thu, 30 Jun 1994 22:21:03 GMT In article <Cs8DoG.L3@megatest.com> albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht) writes: put one of the free unixes on it. First choice was FreeBSD. I have the FreeBSD 1.1 CDROM so I proceeded to create boot disks from it. No go. The notebook would give a read error when attempting to boot from the floppy. The same disks in a desktop work fine. After several attempts, I turned around and installed the Summer '94 Yggdrasil Linux release writing to the same floppies and had no problems whatsoever. You can turn around install FreeBSD again.. :-) The problem was diagnosed as a weirdy with certain BIOSes that didn't put their boot drive ID in a certain register (I ran into this myself when I went to install FreeBSD on my own Toshiba laptop). After some discussions, I fixed it and it's now pretty safe to say that 1.1.5R will boot just fine on your laptop! If you want to use the 1.1.5R boot disks to install the rest of 1.1R off your CD that's fine too, just don't ever re-install the 1.1R boot blocks (not that you'd ever need to) or you'll run into the old problem again. Of course, my recommendation would be to go whole-hogg with 1.1.5R on your laptop. In any case, modulo anything else really strange with your Aero, it will install! Jordan